2nd Heavy Artillery Brigade On 1 July 1916, the 2nd Heavy Artillery Brigade was formed within the
Bucharest Garrison, with the 3rd and 4th Heavy Artillery Regiments under its command. The Brigade was subordinated to the
Bucharest Fortress Command. The Brigade, participated in the
Romanian 1916 campaign during the
First World War, with the 3rd Regiment taking part in the
Battle of Turtucaia and in the
Battle of Bucharest, and later in the
1917 campaign. The Brigade was reestablished in 1948 as the Mixed Artillery Brigade based in
Slobozia. A year later, it was moved to
Focșani. and also participated in the
Battle of Stalingrad (starting with October 1942) with the 5th Heavy Artillery Regiment. At
Stalingrad, the entire 5th Regiment was encircled and taken prisoner as the Germans took their necessary fuel for the vehicles towing the guns. The Regiment was reformed by 1 May 1943 with the 45th and 54th Independent Heavy Artillery
Divizions. During the
Second Jassy–Kishinev offensive in 1944, the 1st Heavy Artillery Regiment supported General
Mieth's
Army Corps. In 1945, it further took part in the
Siege of Budapest.
8th Brigade at
Cincu After the war, the 1st Regiment was moved to
Pitești, then to Focșani in 1948. Both regiments merged with the former 2nd Heavy Artillery Brigade into the 8th Heavy Artillery Brigade in 1949. During the 1950s, the Brigade changed its name several times, settling on the 8th Artillery Gun Brigade in 1959 and keeping the name until 1995 when it was changed to the 8th Artillery Brigade. With the reception of the first
HIMARS launchers in 2021, the brigade changed its name from LAROM to Tactical Operational Missile ( - ROT). In 2025, a team of soldiers from the 8th ROT Brigade took part in the Loyal Leda 2025 exercise at the
Joint Force Training Centre in
Bydgoszcz, Poland for practicing military actions in a
NATO Article 5 scenario. ==Organization==